Adding “Family” to Family History Work

In this video, Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles testifies of how family history helps Heavenly Father rescue and bless our ancestors, and Church members describe the inspiring process of working as a family to take their own family names to the temple.

“We hope that all the people in the Church will be able to have that sublime experience of doing temple ordinance work for their own people,” said Elder Nelson. “It is one of the most wonderful ways of solidifying a family around their faith to realize that they’ve been serving their ancestors on the other side of the veil.”

“Any work you do in the temple is time well spent, but receiving ordinances vicariously for one of your own ancestors will make the time in the temple more sacred, and even greater blessings will be received. The First Presidency has declared, ‘Our preeminent obligation is to seek out and identify our own ancestors’ (First Presidency letter, Feb. 29, 2012; emphasis added)” (Richard G. Scott, “The Joy of Redeeming the Dead,” Oct. 2012 general conference).